Good Health is Important!!

Before I got myself under control, I had no problem with eating fast food. I remember thinking, well a hamburger is just bread, beef and veggies and fries, well they are just potatoes with a little oil. Oh and soda, of course the real thing is bad, so I would have diet. How bad could this be?

Well.......It's bad!!!!!

Yesterday, my son passed out. He was fine one minute with no pain and the next thing he knew he was waking up in an ambulance with severe pain in his stomach.

He's a big guy, maybe fifty pounds over weight and he eats primarily fast food and lots of soda and its not diet.

He found out that his gall bladder is enlarged and it's due to eating high fat foods.

He's 30!!!

I've been telling him for years that he needs to change his diet. He tries for a while, but gives up because it's just not convenient to eat healthy.

Now guess what....he gets to eat bread, rice, crackers and applesauce for now until he sees a specialist. He feels like his world has fallen....and he's not sure he wants to get up!

Anyway, at this tender age of 30, he gets to dive into the world of health care to try to remedy the damage that he has done to his body.

All of this because of convenience and bad choices.

He's known for quite some time that he needs to make a lifestyle change. I figured it would take a life changing event to get him into action. Hopefully he will listen to this one and make some changes!

He's just like me and maybe many others.....we waited until something drastic happens before we made a change. So sad that we did not make our decisions before damage is done.

So....He's off to the specialist today. Hopefully he will hear that this is repairable. Hopefully he will hear that he needs to make some changes. Hopefully he will make those changes!!

Our lives are so precious. One day you are out doing what you do and the next thing you know, you're laying in a hospital bed. I rather be there from some epic accident while running or rowing or having fun, than to be there because of the foods I eat or the carelessness of my choices.

Anyway, are you waiting for your wake up call???? Or are you ready to get your health in order today?

Lets do it!!

Keep focused!

Riding the Waves.....

Seems life lately has been up and down. I don't remember...ever...feeling like this. I'm sure when my kids were growing up, life was like riding the waves....I'm sure we had our ups and downs. But now, as I get older, these ups and downs, these waves can mean life and death.

When I was younger I never thought about the decisions I made, never considered what those decisions would mean for my future. Never knew what the bags of candy, fast food and horrible food choices, would do for my body now. Never thought of it. If only I had known that living a sedentary lifestyle would result in my not remembering how to do jumping jack, skip rope or even how to squat. Yeah, I forgot how to do that....

If I knew then, that it was OK to be my own health advocate, maybe I would not have jumped into so many of the surgeries I had. Did I really need to get a hysterectomy, carpel tunnel and bunion surgeries. Could I have made a better choice? (Like losing weight, getting fit, and making better choices)  Looking back....most of the problems I had, that resulted in those surgeries, were linked to obesity. Had I made better choices then, I may have not needed to go there....

Today, in light of all my precious Hubby is going through, I realize how short and precious life is. I mean...2 days ago, we thought he was having a heart attack. Thankfully he is doing better, all his tests were normal...and he's feeling better. Don't know yet, what really happened with him. He's going to the doctor tomorrow, so hopefully we will learn more of what's going on.

Anyway I could be making a decision today, that will effect my life in the future. I am feeling more urgency to get this weight off and to stay healthy. I don't want to ever put myself or my family through an ER situation where I'm laying on a hospital gurney, waiting for the doctors to tell us what is wrong. I don't want to go through THAT kind of physical and emotional pain! I don't want to go there. Especially if there is anything I can do within my power to keep me from going there. If there is.....I'm doing it!

So I'm willing to suffer through the pain of exercising and stretching my muscles to get strong. I'm willing to suffer a little pain when I have to say no to something yummy and get my calories under control so I can lose and one day maintain my weight! I'm willing to suffer through whatever it takes to get and stay healthy for the rest of my life. Now I'm willing to help my sweet Hubby to get healthy so we don't have to go through another episode like we did this week. So scary!

Life is too short! It's precious!! And it's worth going through everything needed to be healthy, so it can be lived to its fullest!

How about you...Are you ready to suffer?

Keep focused!